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 Department:    PHIL

 Course #:    446

 Credits:    5

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    5

 CIP:    510701

 EPC:    34B

 REV:    2024

 Course Description  

Examine the role of ethics and social responsibility in the healthcare environment. Theoretical concepts in healthcare ethics will be applied to real-world situations based on challenges managers face. Emphasis on personal outlooks, contemporary trends, and responsibilities with respect to ethical, legal, economic, regulatory conditions, and the needs of stakeholders in healthcare. Case studies/simulations will be used to explore real-world ethical and social responsibility dilemmas.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: BASM Dept. Chair permission.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 55

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Vocational Preparatory N/A  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Deconstruct ethical theory by examining frameworks to navigate individual and organizational ethical challenges in healthcare fields.
2. Define personal ethical outlooks and approaches to ethical dilemmas in healthcare fields using the intersection of ethical theory and auto-ethnographies.
3. Assess the influence of forces such as implicit and explicit bias, resource/profit maximization, and social justice on ethical choices in healthcare fields by researching the drivers of managerial decisions.
4. Investigate the legal and ethical implications of contemporary healthcare workplace public policy issues (for example, disease management, artificial intelligence), by analyzing their evolution and their impact on individual and organizational behavior.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

1. Frameworks to navigate individual and organizational ethical challenges in healthcare fields by deconstructing ethical theory.
2. Ethical theory by examining frameworks to navigate individual and organizational ethical challenges.
3. Influence of forces such as implicit and explicit bias, resource/profit maximization, and social justice on ethical choices in healthcare fields by researching the drivers of managerial decisions in case studies.
4. Legal and ethical implications of contemporary healthcare workplace public policy issues (for example, disease management, artificial intelligence) by analyzing their evolution and their impact on individual and organizational behavior.